On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:21:12 PM UTC+1, Maciej Dziardziel wrote: > I wasn't quiet happy with the way search on pypi works, > > so I've got an idea of getting all package metadata from pypi > > and do search locally. The only problem is that I can't figure out > > where to get the data from. I tried to use bandersnatch to > > set up mirror, but all I've got was a mixture of egg, whl and exe files. > > Egg and whl are useful maybe, but I guess its not exactly what I want. > > Then I've found api: > > https://pypi.python.org/simple/ provides list of packages, > > and I can use json api to get metadata for each of them.
(Click post to fast, so I am continuing.) So its doable, but I am really hoping for a better way. I assume pypi would ban me quickly for making thousands of requests, and I'd love to be able to update index daily or weekly. Is there something I am missing? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
